Clark Haaland
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Clark Haaland
“If someone truly is creative and inspiring,” they write, “it will show up in how they allocate their spare time.” In job interviews, the authors advise hiring managers to ask, “What are the open tabs on your browser right now?”
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
July 10th, 2025
A newsletter by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Hello friends,
I recently had dinner with a famous author, a scientist and an artist. Despite their obvious success, the conversation turned to how often they all felt “not smart enough.”
I experience this too, especially when I’m around accomplished people. Since I know many... See more
July 10th, 2025
A newsletter by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
READ ON THE WEB
Hello friends,
I recently had dinner with a famous author, a scientist and an artist. Despite their obvious success, the conversation turned to how often they all felt “not smart enough.”
I experience this too, especially when I’m around accomplished people. Since I know many... See more
Ness Labs: The Psychology of Intellectual Self-Doubt 🧠
Create And Move Toward A Goal To Experience Positive Emotion
There are different types of positive emotion, but enthusiasm and joy — not to be confused with satiation — are fully dependent on observing progression toward a valued goal. Separately, the feeling of satiation, or obtainment, occurs when you obtain something you want and feel satisfied.... See more
There are different types of positive emotion, but enthusiasm and joy — not to be confused with satiation — are fully dependent on observing progression toward a valued goal. Separately, the feeling of satiation, or obtainment, occurs when you obtain something you want and feel satisfied.... See more
Mondays of Meaning
Quotes & Ideas and
1 Question For You
Which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities?
Which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities?
3-2-1: How to help someone, the value of bad luck, and rewarding competence
Novelist Marilynne Robinson on how to handle good luck:
"I can only make sense of my unaccountable good fortune by assuming that it means I am under special obligation to make good use of it."
Source: The Paris Review Interviews: Volume IV
"I can only make sense of my unaccountable good fortune by assuming that it means I am under special obligation to make good use of it."
Source: The Paris Review Interviews: Volume IV
3-2-1: Two steps for better results, the qualities of a great career, and how to handle good luck
Most of us will never get the opportunity to live in the bole of a hollow tree, and probably wouldn't much like it if we did. But it is possible to be distracted by outward appearances. If you live in the middle of a city, a desert or a forest may seem an attractive haven of peace, but of course it is possible to flee to the wilderness and take... See more
In the Desert of the Heart
Decades into his long life, the poet Robert Graves defined love as “a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that... makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”